Mick and Tess Pemble on their Homestead property west of Charters Towers. The couple have already lost 500 animals to the drought. (ABC : Allyson Horn )

The Pembles are spending $35,000 a month on lick for their animals. Mick is calling for the Queensland Government to offer fodder and water subsidies (ABC : Allyson Horn )

Eight of Allan Hills' dams are dry, Mick Pemble says this one only has enough water to last two weeks (ABC : Allyson Horn )

'I would really really like to get the leaders of our governments to come here and stand here with me, help me day by day drag either dead cattle out of the watering point or a live one that won't stand up and I will give them the revolver,' says Mick (ABC : Allyson Horn )

Mick and Tess Pemble from Allan Hills Station west of Charters Towers, say of their nine dams they have just one with water left in it and it will probably only last another two weeks.

"It is definitely the worst I have ever seen it, I have been in this district since 1970," says Mick.

The Pembles are spending in excess of $35,000 a month on lick but 500 animals have already starved to death and Mick says government help is hard to get.

"(It's) bloody desperate.

"I would really really like to get the leaders of our governments to come here and stand here with me, help me day by day drag either dead cattle out of the watering point or a live one that won't stand up, and I will give them the revolver and tell them that they have to do my job," he says.

Mick feels let down by the government and says restrictions on the industry coupled with the drought may end the beef industry in Queensland.

"We have got to supply to the world market (and) they dictate the price to us but our government sets in policies that we have to pay Australian price for every input that we put in.

"If I could source all of my products on the world market without government charges this industry would still be doing alright," he says.